1993 – Bobby Blaze defeats The Dirty White Boy to win the vacant SMW Television Title

1994 – Tracy Smothers defeats Kendo The Samurai to win the SMW Television Title

1995 – The Thugs (Tony Anthony & Tracy Smothers) defeat The Dynamic Duo (Al Snow & Unabomb) to win the SMW Tag Team Titles. This was the only change in the history of the titles that did not involve either The Rock n Roll Express or The Heavenly Bodies

1996 – The Ilio DiPaolo Memorial Show was held in Buffalo, New York. The show was promoted by Ilio’s son Dennis in association with WCW. All proceeds from the show were donated to local childrens charities

– Konnan defeats Big Bubba Rogers to retain the WCW United States Title
– The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs & Jerry Saggs) defeat The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock & Johnny Grunge) in a Street Fight
– Lex Luger defeats Jim Duggan to retain the WCW Television Title
– Randy Savage defeats Ric Flair
– The Giant defeats Sting by DQ to retain the WCW World Title

1998 – AAA TripleMania VI was held in Chihuahua, Mexico. This was the first year since 1993 that there was only one TripleMania event.

2006 – one-time WWF Tag Team Champion John Tenta died aged just 42. Tenta competed in multiple sports in his youth, but it was wrestling that he most favoured. Upon graduating from Louisiana State University, Tenta moved to Japan to compete as a sumo wrestler. Despite his in-ring success (going unbeaten in his first 6 months of competition) Tenta quit sumo to focus on professional wrestling. He initially competed in All Japan, but was soon scouted and snapped up by the WWF, debuting as ‘Earthquake Evans’ (which was later shortened to Earthquake) in 1989. He was pushed as a monster heel, repeatedly sending his opponents out of the ring on a stretcher after repeatedly hitting his Seated Senton finisher. He was soon at the peak of his career, feuding with Hulk Hogan across 1990-91. A brief run as WWF Tag Team Champion followed, but his career began to wane and he would make the jump to WCW in 1994, after being offered a more lucrative contract. Here, he competed as ‘Avalanche’, ‘The Shark’ and ‘John Tenta’ but found little success under any of the characters. By 1997, he had left WCW and was back in the WWF a year later as ‘Golga’, though this character was also unsuccessful and he was released less than a year later. After nearly a year out of wrestling, Tenta (as Earthquake) returned to the WWF to compete in the gimmick battle royal at WrestleMania X-7 before touring Japan to round off his career. In 2004, Tenta was forced to retire from wrestling after devloping bladder cancer, which later spread to his lungs, ultimately causing his death. WWE acknowledged his death on their website and included an ‘In Memorial’ image before the following Raw and Smackdown shows. It should also be noted that the folks over at Wrestlecrap.com posted a beautiful tribute, with Tenta having been involved with the site in previous years

2009 – WWE Extreme Rules, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, marked the start of WWE’s new match-specific PPV events

– Kofi Kingston defeats MVP, William Regal & Matt Hardy in a Fatal Four Way Match to retain the WWE United States Title
– Chris Jericho defeats Rey Mysterio in a No Holds Barred Match to win the WWE Intercontinental Title
– Tommy Dreamer defeats Christian & Jack Swagger in a Triple Threat Match to win the ECW Title. Had Dreamer lost, he would have been fired
– Santino Marella defeats Vickie & Chavo Guerrero in a Handicap Hogpen Match to retain the title of Miss Wrestlemania
– Batista defeats Randy Orton in a Cage Match to win the WWE Title
– Jeff Hardy defeats Edge in a Ladder Match to win the World Heavyweight Title
– CM Punk cashes in his Money In The Bank and defeats Jeff Hardy to win the World Heavyweight Title

2010 – The Nexus debut on tonight’s Raw, decimating the ringside area. Unfortunately, the angle never really reached its potential and the significantly altered group had all-but-disappeared one year later.